I always like to experiment a lot with my electronic gadgets. This time the term goes to my Canon SD780 (iXUS  100). I dont know how i got in to this but finally landed in a page which said “Canon Hack development kit“, CHDK in short. After a couple of struggle i finally managed to activate the CHDK firmware on my canon. It says firmware but this will not modify your existing firmware on the camera and can be deleted or removed simply by formatting your SD CARD using a PC/laptop. The following time lapse is my second test using a intervalometer script from Andrew Hazelden’s...

Iphone OS 4.0 Mutli-tasking is really great. The difficult part is if a user keeps adding  the apps running in the background or forgetting to close it. Apple says that the new iPhone OS 4.0 will handle the multi-tasking without affecting the battery life or the operating performance.  But how a user knows that the applications are gone to multi-tasking and the number is really growing high. Lets keep an multi-tasking icon placed on top of the screen. The icon visually shows the user when the multi-tasking feature utilized in “Medium”, “heavy”, or “Extreme”. May...

there are lot of reasons to end up with the “bootmgr is missing” headache. most of the people end up with this problem when playing with the bootloader. this instructions will apply only to the computers which runs with single hard disk and windows 7  installed in Drive C: this instructions will apply when windows 7 fails to fix the issue automatically. Please leave your message if you required an additional guidance to fix your problem. I will try to help at my best. what are required to fix this? a windows 7 DVD or a windows 7 recovery CD.  Please google around if you have questions...

Annular solar eclipse January 15, 2010. Location Chennai, India. All the photographs are captured on Canon IXUS 100 IS. I have tried many settings to capture the moment, but nothing worked out. I tried changing all the settings which is available in the camera, but one thing i forgot is to place a filter glass in front of the camera. Finally the moment captured from my Office sun glass window. At the time, the diamond ring is over #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1...

{the following steps performed in intel based MAC OSX 10.5.7 running iphone sdk 2.2.1} step 1: Open terminal step 2: perform the following commands without quotes: > “sudo -s” supply the password when the above command prompt for it. step 3: executing the below command will uninstall the iphone SDK 2.2.1. > “/Developer/Library/uninstall-developer-folder” remember the above command is case-sensitive. -end-

Garage games, the makers of Torque game development technology, Providing professional level cross-platform technology and tools recently released the iPhone game development engine, iTGE Beta 2 to owners of an Indie license. iTGE is mainly focused on the game developers who wants to develop their games exclusively for iPhone and iPODTouch. Its gives an easy option to export the game to any platform like Xbox 260, Wii, iPhone and iPODTouch. The most notable point of the Garagegames game engine is, it will work with PC and Mac. It means, a developer who does not having a Mac machine he/she can peacefully...

When Steve jobs revealed the iPhone to the world on the 2007 WWDC event, he said its a three different product packed in one single device. But one thing he forgot to say or he did not pay much attention on his own brian gadget is, it also a revolutionary next generation Game console. Steve jobs, or even people in Apple never imagined that iPhone will become a big hit on console gaming. But it did. Once Apple opened the gate for indie developers to publish their apps and games on iTunes App Store, the Success stories begins. Indie’s like Steve Demeter, developer of the popular iPhone game Trism,...

Chennai, India: The Biggest Computer system vendor HP (Hewlett Packard) reporting their laptop customers to not to use VLC Player. VLC Player is the popular open source video player software among a lot of computer users.  Recently HP laptop users facing a inbuilt speaker problem, which is often getting malfunction across the users. The official HP service center executives advicing the laptop users to stop using the VLC player to watch, play media files. They reporting that playing a media files using VLC Player causing the damage to the built in speakers. As an additional information the official...

Am going to guide you how to install, configure,run and to make sip call to speak between two different users/computers . first download and install the windows based softphone called xlite from http://www.counterpath.com/ download and install the following package if it does not exist in your linux box. the asterisk installation will fail if any of the following packages does not exist in the machine. Packages: gcc cpp glibc-headers glibc-devel glibc-kernheaders gcc-c++ libstdc++-devel libtermcap-devel Hope you have all the packages mentioned above. lets start. go to the linux machine. create...

Many users experiencing the “Elevated mode error” after installing the Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 on Vista and running the program in the administrator login. The “Elevated mode” error pops up twice and and shuts down the program completely when pressing the “close” button. Disabling the “User Access Control” will help you to run the program successfully without any errors. Follow the blow steps to make the changes. Please read the Microsoft advisory before performing the following settings. Link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709628.aspx step...